As part of a push to wrangle state control of a pot industry that has largely been subject to localized oversight, legislators last year approved the creation of the Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation. And now, they have a person set to run it. Gov. Jerry Brown announced recently the…
Gov. Jerry Brown signed an emergency bill that resulted from a legislative drafting error that had dozens of cities across California scrambling to enact bans on the cultivation of medical marijuana. AB21, introduced by Assemblyman Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg), is an amendment to the medical marijuana reforms the state passed in…
One of the hardest things to resolve when dealing with medical marijuana and even recreational marijuana legalization is how people are still being sent to prison on marijuana related charges in states where the drug is legal. Part of the problem is that possession of any amount of marijuana is…
For decades, when people think of marijuana, they think of people sitting around the apartment and eating everything in site. This is, of course, what people refer to as having the munchies, and this concept has been well featured in many anti-marijuana commercials over the years. However, according to a…
According to recent news feature from Rolling Stone, an airplane flight over much of California really demonstrates the effects of the ongoing drought. It is easy to see the drought in the dry hills, brown trees, and dusty riverbeds. It is no secret that marijuana crops use a lot of…
Medical marijuana concentrates are becoming increasingly popular. While it is fairly easy to heat marijuana in a pan on the stove and extract the THC-rich oil in the same manner people have been making pot brownies for decades, making butane hash oil is a considerably more dangerous and difficult undertaking.…
The Michigan Supreme Court recently issued its ninth ruling relative to the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act, a move that prompted prosecutors to drop at least five pending criminal cases for alleged unlawful distribution of the drug. The civil forfeiture cases connected to those five cases will also be dismissed, and…
In March 2014, an exchange student from the Republic of Congo was visiting Colorado from his host state of Wyoming when he consumed a single marijuana cookie that contained six times the recommended per-serving dose of the drug. Soon after, the 19-year-old jumped off a four-story balcony to his death.…
According to a recent news article from AllGov California, a 52-year-old former marijuana dealer is currently unemployed and lives in a trailer on the property of his parents’ home in the state of New Mexico. As he waits, California politicians are hard at work trying to keep him out of…
Despite the growing shift in public opinion toward the legalization of marijuana in California and across the country, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department wants the public to know it is still illegal to grow marijuana for profit in the county. The agency intends to ramp up enforcement efforts and arrest…